PHP style include

How do you do an include in a view using a url similar to a php include. I need to pull a common nav bar using a URL and in PHP of course I'd do

PHP Code:

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include_once "http://www.domain.com/inc/nav_bar.php" 


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Can't for the life of me find out how to do this.
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render_partial :)

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Originally Posted by vgarcia

render_partial :)

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Maybe I need an example because I don't see how this works. The docs don't mention anything about using full URL's to render external content like this and doing something like this:
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render ( : partial=>"http://www.domain.com/inc/nav_bar.php")
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gives an error about @nav_bar.php not being a valid instance variable name.

I'm feeling very dense about this problem. :blush: Am I missing something as an option?

You can't do includes through HTTP that way. Partials provide "include" functionality, but it's done in a different way than a PHP include is.

Why not just stick your navigation in a layout? Then you still get the benefit of only having one place to edit it for a sitewide change.

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Originally Posted by vgarcia

Why not just stick your navigation in a layout? Then you still get the benefit of only having one place to edit it for a sitewide change.

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Mostly because this is an externally maintained piece of html. I work at a university and this nav bar is from the main univeristy web group. It would be easier not to have to keep tabs on changes they might make to it if I can just use the URL include method to include it in my departments pages.

So currently there is no way in Rails or Ruby to do this?

Found it.

in environment.rb (or whever you want)

Code:

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require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

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And then I just used:

Code:

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<%= Net::HTTP.get URI.parse("http://www.domain.com/inc/nav_bar.php") %>

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From the Ruby standard library.

I think it is wise to cache that...